Description

TL 73 SW WETHERSFIELD GOSFIELD ROAD
(north side)

1/150 High Thatch

GV II

House. Late C16, altered in C20. Timber framed, plastered, roof thatched. 4
bays facing SE with axial stack. C20 lean-to extension roofed with machine-made
red clay tiles to rear of left end. 2 small C20 lean-to extensions with
thatched roofs at rear right corner. 2 storeys. Ground floor, 3 casements and
one fixed light, first floor 2 casements, all C20. C20 thatched lean-to porch
with door on left side. SW gable end (facing Gosfield Road), one C20 casement
on each floor, and C20 French windows. Exterior plastered with traditional
sawtooth chevron design in panels. Jowled posts, curved tension braces trenched
inside heavy studding, face-halved and bladed scarfs in wallplates. Chamfered
axial and transverse beams with lamb's tongue stops, exposed plain joists of
horizontal section. Large wood-burning hearth facing to right, the mantel beam
chamfered with lamb's tongue stops, reduced for C20 grate; smaller wood-burning
hearth facing to left also reduced for C20 grate. Diamond mortices for unglazed
window in upper storey. Clasped purlin roof, re-using sooted rafters from
crownpost roof of an earlier house. Some evidence of the former existence of a
timber-framed chimney, in the same position as the present stack, replaced
c.1600.

Listing NGR: TL7377130346

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26416434

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)